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Same here. I will rather win that prestigous award.
by madiathomas 10y ago
Same here. I will rather win that prestigous award.
- aanm1988 10y agoI'd take the money. You can't take either with you and with a billion dollars I could get more than a few things named after me.
- Cyph0n 10y agoThings which will likely all be forgotten. Name 10 billionaires from the 19th century. Now try naming 10 scientists. Go with the Turing Award if you want to be remembered.
- aanm1988 10y agoTrick question. > Forbes magazine updates a complete global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year. John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916
- Cyph0n 10y agoStop being a pedant; I think you get my point. If you want to play, note that I did not say USD anywhere in my comment. Not to mention that Forbes was founded in 1917, and so it clearly has no data collected to "confirm" an earlier billionaire. We can go back to the 14th century if you like (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Musa_I_of_Mali https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Musa_I_of_Mali): > During his reign Mali may have been the largest producer of gold in the world at a point of exceptional demand. One of the richest people in history, he is known to have been enormously wealthy; reported as being inconceivably rich by contemporaries, "There’s really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth" (Davidson 2015). But thanks, I actually never knew that about USD billionaires.
- Retra 10y agoEverything will be forgotten. The only question is "when".
- Cyph0n 10y agoWell, I'd argue that (for example) Warren Buffet will be forgotten long before the invention of the transistor will.